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The Cursing Hedgehog
Milla Paloniemi’s Cursing Hedgehog (Kiroileva siili in Finnish) cracks me up. how do hedgehogs scratch their backs? . . . DAMN IT! they don’t. -HI! I’M AN AFRICAN PYGMY HEDGEHOG!! -WHAT KINDA HEDGEHOG...
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Tom Gauld’s Comics
Have you seen Tom Gauld‘s wonderful comics? He appeals to my fondness for lists. More at tomgauld.com More comics
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Julia Vuori Postcards
I’ve posted pages from one of Julia Vuori’s delightful picture books in a previous entry. Here are some postcards with Vuori’s drawings, from a terrific postcard collection belonging to duffel, aka...
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X-ray Specs
My name is Rick, and I wrote this post. Like most children, I read comic books. I didn’t collect them, and I don’t think I bought many of them, either. I mostly read other people’s comics. Superman...
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Savage Chickens
Remember Savage Chickens? It turns out Doug Savage, the artist of these charming post-it comics, also designed the delightful video for Laura Veirs’s “July Flame”, which I posted previously. More...
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Tommi Musturi’s Wordless Comics
In keeping with the all-Finnish theme this month, here is a link to Books from Finland magazine’s excerpt from Tommi Musturi‘s fantastic comic Samuelin matkassa (Walking with Samuel). I urge you to...
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David Horsey on Tea Party Contradictions
An excellent column and cartoon from David Horsey this week in the PI. Dana Loesch, the latest pretty face to become a media voice for the Tea Party, was on Bill Maher’s show last week reciting a...
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The Cat’s Coming, by Chihoi
The new Words Without Borders issue is dedicated to comics, including The Cat’s Coming, comic artist Chihoi’s adaptation of a short story by Xi Xi. Although he’s right-handed, he drew it with his left...
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Starhead Boy’s Burrito Unicorn Pablo
Seattle artist Starhead Boy has lost his local celebrity pet burrito unicorn Pablo. Pablo has been missing for a long time. Or perhaps he just gets lost a lot.
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How Ernst Stavro Blofeld Saved Christmas
A dark and goofy Christmas story from comics genius Matti Hagelberg, translated by yours truly and published today in the always excellent Words Without Borders. Tough luck for Hansel and Gretel. Their...
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